Our graduate students spend many long hours developing and performing their research projects but the Department usually only gets to hear about their research twice -  during a 20 minute 851 presentation and at their final thesis defense.  To offer more opportunities for polishing public presentation skills and to allow the graduate faculty a chance to assess progress, we are starting a weekly brown-bag Research in Progress (RIP) lunch.

Mechanism: Presentations (Microsoft Powerpoint) will occur Mondays during the semester from 11-noon in the BRC lunchroom.

Attendance is mandatory for all graduate students. (GGC students have to present, but otherwise one of their numerous research/clinical meetings can be used in place of regular attendance.) 

To fit everyone in a single year, student presentation length would be based on number of years in the program. 

*First year students are only be required to attend. 
*Second year students will speak for 15 minutes with 10 minutes for questions (two/Monday)
*Third year and beyond will have the full 50 minutes with 10 minutes for questions 

The audience will provide comments which will be collated and condensed and presented to the speaker in a brief meeting in order to address strengths and weaknesses.

RIP SCHEDULE
2007 - 2008